Chuppah dreams: NBA star Kevin Love married in Jewish ceremony

The NBA star signed a ketubah and the bridal gown was by Jewish designer

Kevin Love signed a ketubah – and his wife posted it to Instagram. (Screenshot via IG/@katebock.)

By Louis Keene June 30, 2022

This Jewish wedding posed an unusual challenge: the chuppah needed to clear the high-profile groom’s 6-foot-10 frame.

Kevin Love, the former UCLA basketball star and veteran forward of the Cleveland Cavaliers, married Jewish supermodel Kate Bock over the weekend in a ceremony at the New York Public Library officiated by his agent, Jeff Schwartz.

The Great Gatsby–inspired wedding had no shortage of Jewish bells and whistles, starting with the white cherry-blossom chuppah, whose arched canopy was so high it doesn’t appear in People’s photo gallery.

Bock — who wore a wedding dress by Jewish gown designer Danielle Frankel — and Love, who won an NBA Championship with the Cavaliers in 2016, also signed a ketubah written in Hebrew and English.

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The couple met in the 2015 offseason, when Love — who has also modeled, for Banana Republic — was in his playing prime. The two hit it off over coffee at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

A year later, with Love hoisting the Larry O’Brien Trophy for the first time, the couple announced their relationship on Instagram.

The wedding was attended by a slew of celebrities and NBA stars, including Adele, the chef Mario Carbone, Russell Westbrook (Love’s UCLA teammate), and, of course, LeBron James, who anchored the Cavs’ title run — and who’s been hitting up Jewish weddings all summer.

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In the comments of Bock’s post-wedding Instagram post, Claudia Oshry, a comedian and author, jubilantly noted the ketubah.

“Omg the Ketubah ??? Jewish queen!!!!!!” she wrote.

Underneath, someone else commented: “I’m volunteering to teach him how to read it!! 5 lessons, I promise.”

Louis Keene is a reporter for the Forward. His work has also been published in The New York Times, New York Magazine and VICE. He is based in Los Angeles and can be followed on Twitter @thislouis.

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